This year marks 15 years of publishing Colorado Gardener. At the beginning, once we finished the layout of each issue, we copied the files onto Zip discs, and later CD’s, which I hand-delivered to the printer in Denver. Today it’s an upload. We didn’t have an online edition or even a website, and social networking [...]
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While concerned gardeners try to do their part by planting waterwise landscapes and more natives, avoiding poisons, and building healthy soils, the larger picture in the U.S. has so little to do with sustainability that individual efforts seem puny in comparison. I’ve recently watched some documentary films that beg the question: have we, as a [...]
This year has been a good example of “typical” weather for our region, including a dry winter on the Eastern Slope and plains, with plenty of snow on the Western Slope. Instead of a spring that gradually unfolds, gently coaxing trees and flowers out of dormancy and warming up the soil for garden veggies, we [...]
Finally, some rain! It’s always nice to see white peaks to the west but we really need our share of moisture on the plains. Except for starting seeds indoors, I’ve had little time for gardening so far and I’m itching to get my hands in the dirt. I’m glad I pulled out the invading grass [...]
In this first of our three spring issues Kayann Short describes an early spring day at Stonebridge Farm when the CSA “barterers” arrive for wake-up-the-farm chores. The piece is called “Starts.” We cover several other food gardening topics: Larry Stebbins writes about growing asparagus and rhubarb, Carol O’Meara tells how and when to prune grapes, [...]
The other night on our lazy way home from a wonderful farm dinner at Lone Hawk Farms down the street, the air was cool and fresh after the rain, and mosquito free. The lights from the Lyons cement plant to the north were visible across the pastures and, knowing that our community pulled together a [...]
Even though I don’t have a greenhouse I always grow a lot of plants from seed in front of a sunny window under lights in my daughter’s old bedroom. This year I bought some of The Flower Bin’s own soil mix and, to make it go further, combined it with some bagged soil I had [...]
I’m writing this hurriedly, in the middle of a crashing thunderstorm and drenching rain. On our last deadline a blizzard caused power outages for a couple of days during the final stretch, so I’m especially mindful of my vulnerability and dependency on the grid. In the West our precipitation does tend to arrive dramatically, in [...]
On our cover is a vista that could be in any number of places in the Rocky Mountains; but it isn’t. Late last summer, Panayoti Kelaidis and Mike Bone from Denver Botanic Gardens traveled to the Altai, a vast mountain range where Kazakhstan, Russia, China, and Mongolia meet. Underwritten by Plant Select, the journey was [...]
Welcome to our Education Issue. Inside you’ll find an extensive list of classes, lectures, workshops, conferences, symposiums, and a few plant sales that occur in late winter and early spring. Along the Front Range we are fortunate to have landscape symposiums and workshops of all kinds with terrific speakers and presentations during the two weeks [...]
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